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Cooking

LEARN TO COOK and be healthy, wealthy, and happy!

As with my "Savings" page, I've listed my weekly savings behind each article/recipe. If it is seasonal, the savings are divided up between 52 weeks. This makes it easy to compare the monetary value of each skill/activity.

Be resourceful by shopping in your backyard, barnyard or garden. I've included here a list of foods you can get for free (with a little bit of work).

Food Preservation:

Reusable Freezer Boxes ($0.19)
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Canning: Frugal or Not?

Fermentation
Intro to Fermentation
Fermenting Vegetables ($0.06)

Drinks
Kombucha ($0.92)
Grow Your Own Kombucha SCOBY ($0.10)

Cheese & Dairy
Intro to Hard Cheese
Mozzarella Cheese

Italian Salad Cheese ($0.50)
Yogurt ($3.00)


Spices & Seasonings
Vanilla Extract

Fruit
Applesauce ($1.38)
Apple Chips ($0.69)
Breakfast
Granola ($4.00)

Meats

Making the Most of a Chicken

Bone Broth
Venison Bone Broth ($2.50)
Pressure Canned Bone Broth 
Preparing Chicken Feet

How to Render Fat ($0.58)

Grains & Beans

Sprouting Lentils ($0.19)
Pressure Canning Beans ($1.30)

How to Make Hominy ($1.80)

Sweet Stuff
Royal Icing
FREE Groceries
Get free food by foraging, gardening/seed saving or other ways! 

Meat
Venison ($0.77)
Chicken ($0.96)

Fruit
Strawberries
Raspberries

Mulberries
Black Raspberries
Apples


Nuts
Black Walnuts ($0.12)
Hickory Nuts

Vegetables
Lettuce
Winter Squash
Green Beans
Peas
Tomatoes

Other
​Maple Syrup ($0.38)
Herbs & Spices ($1.85- see garden page)
Total Savings: $17.02 per week / $885.04 per year

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